Takahashi's Xbox 360 book gets finishing touches

As promised, unofficial Xbox biographer Dean Takahashi has completed the draft of his upcoming book, The Xbox 360 Uncloaked, before his self-imposed deadline of E3 in May. You can check out some info on the book at the publisher's website.

Counting down to the book's May 9th release date, Takahashi will be posting portions of an exhaustively detailed chronology of the original Xbox every week. A small snippet of the first installment:

• April 22, 1999: Craig Mundie lays out rules of engagement, setting up a beauty contest between the Xbox and WebTV teams
• April 27, 1999: Xbox team meets with Mundie to show him demos of the PS 2 emulation and the PC
• April 27, 1999: 3-D graphics chip designer GigaPixel visits Microsoft.
• April 28, 1999: 3Dfx graphics chip team visits Microsoft.
• April 29, 1999: Dave Kirk, chief scientist of Nvidia, visits Redmond to talk about game business
• April 30, 1999: Consumer Windows/PC appliance team holds a meeting with Bill Gates
  

The first installment goes from 1983 (Microsoft launches Flight Simulator) to Dec. 22, 1999 (Rick Thompson takes the Xbox team skiing). Prepare to get your minutiae on.

[Via Joystiq]